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Many non-native trees may be as familiar as native trees because plant hunters and plant collectors have been finding and introducing trees into the British Isles for many centuries. Common, non-native trees such as the Horse chestnut, Sycamore and False acacia will be more familiar in many towns than several native trees. In London, the London plane, which came into being only in the mid-seventeenth century has taken its common name from the capital, so widely-planted there and familiar is it.

This section contains a very small selection of the non-native species growing in London. Those marked with an * can be found at Highbury Fields, Islington.